Steinberg WaveLab Pro 12

WaveLab - The Biggest Ever Release for Audio Mastering

WaveLab 12 is a groundbreaking release for audio mastering and editing, packed with nearly 80 new features and improvements. It is the ideal choice for world-class mastering facilities, music studios, and ambitious hobbyists. WaveLab 12 offers state-of-the-art tools for everyone working with music and sound.

An Unmatched Editing Experience

ARA Plug-in

WaveLab’s powerful Audio Editor is now available as an ARA plug-in, allowing direct audio file editing within other DAWs like Cubase 13, Nuendo 13, Reaper 7, and Studio One 6.5. This seamless integration offers advanced editing features without leaving your favorite DAW.

Rainbow Waveform

Visualize audio waveforms in multiple colors to highlight spectral content. Customizable coloration helps instantly recognize specific audio features, enhancing your editing efficiency.

Automatic Transient Markers

This feature provides visual guidance for snapping audio selection to transient and release points, streamlining the editing process. The tab key allows swift navigation across transient points, speeding up your workflow.

No Limits to Audio Exchange

Transfer any audio range, with or without effects, from WaveLab to any other application seamlessly. New drag and drop and copy/paste functions radically streamline your workflow across diverse platforms, even when using the ARA extension.

Extended Copy and Paste Functionality

Optionally associate all standard editing actions with a crossfade option for smooth transitions during the editing process.

Automatic Waveform Zoom to Peaks

Automatically zoom to the peaks of the waveform’s visible part. The waveform expands to fill the vertical zoom as you scroll/zoom horizontally into a quiet section.

Synchronized Audio File and Montage Navigation

Synchronize scrolling and zooming across selected audio files and/or montages for convenient visual comparison of different versions.

Keep Your Loudness In Check

Loudness Analysis and Reporting

Generate personalized reports detailing all aspects of loudness and peak levels within your audio files and montages. These reports ensure adherence to specific loudness standards, valuable for pre-mastering assessments and post-mastering quality assurance.

Visual Analysis

Explore the spectral details of your audio files and montages with a wide range of visual analysis tools. These aids help both seasoned sound engineers and budding audio enthusiasts understand the impact of audio processing on loudness.

New Loudness Meta Normalizer Functions

The Audio Montage meta normalizer now includes functions to set the active clip's loudness and shift others, peak normalize the predominant clip and shift others, and normalize the peak level.

Loudness Matching

Match the loudness of reference tracks to the Audio Montage output and vice versa for accurate A/B comparisons between mastered audio and reference sources.

Enhanced Workflow and Productivity

New Startup Assistant

Kickstart your projects with the new Startup Assistant, featuring a web display panel that streamlines access to essential resources and updates from the moment you start WaveLab 12.

Enhanced Project Structure

WaveLab’s project system has been redesigned for ease of use. Back up your entire project as a consolidated folder or a ZIP archive containing all your files.

Audio Montage Asset Management

Simplify the organization of your audio montages with a revamped structure. Back up an entire audio montage with all of its media files.

Sideline Tracks

Hide tracks to declutter your screen space and free up CPU resources for other tracks. This feature also safeguards your clips by preventing unintended alterations during editing.

New Steinberg Built-in ASIO Driver (Windows)

Access the audio inputs and outputs provided by the Windows audio subsystem if you do not have an ASIO driver. This driver performs sample rate conversion automatically if the source audio file's sample rate differs from that of your device.

Naming Scheme

New filter options allow you to generate new names from custom modifications of source names.

Be the Master of Your Masters

New Null Test Track

WaveLab 12 introduces Null Test Tracks for the Audio Montage, used for null testing or null difference—a widely adopted audio measurement method for quality assurance, troubleshooting, and audio analysis.

Frequency Band Monitoring

Isolate specific frequency bands while listening to the Audio Montage output and the reference track. Choose from five customizable high-quality, linear-phase filters for instant A/B comparison, enabling you to monitor your mastering session's impact.

Speaker Configurations with Playback Plug-ins

Attach each of the eight speaker configurations to a playback plug-in chain preset. When a speaker configuration is selected, the associated plug-ins automatically replace any existing playback plug-ins.

Plug-in Settings Replicator

Instantly copy the current parameters of a given plug-in to one or more other instances of the same plug-in within the same audio montage.

Enhanced Album Wizard

The new album wizard provides ISRC generation enhancements and added options to adjust markers and preserve clip positions.

New Plug-ins

WaveLab 12 introduces several new plug-ins to enhance your audio editing and mastering capabilities.